Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-06-04
MISSING LINKS.

More than 22,O0O,O0 feet of lumber
has been used in the construction of
snowsheds on the Northern Pacific road
Fees paid the lawyers in the Morgan
will contest in New York amount to
100000. The estate is worth $10,OOO,-
900.
The Queen of Roumania is daughter
of the Prince Won Wied and grandniece
of Emperor William. She is decidedly
literary in her tastes.
There are 2,127 pensioners in North
Carolina, the smallest number in any
state of the union. They relieve the
government of $4,000 annually.
Out West it is proposed to have bal
lot-boxes in railway car, so that coun-
fry voters living along the road need
not be obliged to drive so far.
A sign of convalescence from Anglo
mania appears in New York. where
''habit MAKER" announces that he is
prepared to furnish English clothes
with an American tone"
A Pennsylvania coal-operator has
employed a competent surgeon to lecture
to his miners on the method of pro-
cedure in the many emergencies that
arise from mine accidents.
"A man said to me the other nigh"
remarked clergyman, al would not
have missed your sermon for $780, and
yet when the plate was passed round
that man put in penny"
Three men in Flagstaff, A. T., toiled
all one night to get barrel supposed to
- - oaI1 nd
away to their camp. When they tap
ped it they found that it tcontained kero-
sene oil.
A New York physician having direct
ed one of his patients to bathe wound
in tepld water, the patient sent his little
girl to the drug store with nots say
ing: "Please sell bearer one-hah pint
of tepid water"
The Emperor of Austria. who is q
great smoker, has been ordered by the
doctors to give up the fragrant weed.
They attribute his neuralgia to it His
Majesty was in the habit of smoking
twenty cigars daily.
The official Investigations made in
Prussia relative to the causes of mine
explosions show. among other things,
that many explosions attributed to fire
damp, or outbursts of gas. are really
due to the fine coal dust in mines.
Brooches representing an oyster shell.
upon which rests tiny crab in red
enamel, are bizarre tancies Of the
hour. A realistic hair-pin is a pea pod
of frosted gold half open. displaying
nine pearl peas. An enameled snail
nips one Of the peas.
The telescope for the Lick Observa-
torv is to be 81 feet long and AZ inches
in diameter, and will cost $l64.S50. 1t
will be so delicately adjusted that it can
b. manipulated by the observer at the
eve end, where he will have command
of all its motions.
A new material this season has been
successfully introduced as railroad
cloth. 1t is described as ''heavy ribbed
and very soft and is very stylish for
jackets as well as mantles. No demoi-
selle of the times should be without one
of these railroad wraps
Louisville, KY, is said to have social
rules that are remarkable for their
laxitv Almost any man with a gentle
manly appearance and good address
can with little effort get into society
there; and the young women are pro-
tected very little by their mothers.
In Washington dwell two men who
own SO much bric-a-brac that they have
moved into larger house to accom-
modate it Among other rare things is
a screen, such as is used in eastern
harems, made of carved wood. with
curious little windows which open and
shut like doors.
There Is n very mean man in Port
land. Ore. He keeps a pig store in the
center of the city. Several nights ago
. special policeman found the store
door unlocked. and sent hack to the
merchants house to notify him. The
n orchaEt walked down and locked the
door. but left the policeman to pay the
hackman.
The King of Cambodia. according to
the correspondent of = Paris Journal.
has 800 wives, chosen from the hand
sAmest women in the whole country.
Inc entire population and territory be-
long to the king. ALI the Cambodians
are the kings "earmen" or sin and
pay him rents The king himself be-
longs 10 the French Resident-GeneraL
As an evidence of the truth Of the
assertion that many young Mormon
children are taught the art Of perjury
from the time they begin to talk. Salt
Lake gentleman who is familiar with
the facts says that he knows Of . little
boy scarcely two years old who. on
being asked what he would say If the
deputies came. answered. Il would say
my papa dead"
A Napa. Cal. man thought he saw .
sea serpent in the river there. but il was
only solid mass of little fishes. each
about an inch and = half long. The
school was about fifty yards long and a
yard wide. and headed up stream. The
commotion they made was caused By
hundreds Of large fishes that were con-
tinually throwing themselves among
and eating up the little ones.
George Greer. Of Santa Maria. Tex,
dreamed three times that q box con-
tanning 5000 in gold was buried under
/ one corner Of bis house. and had q